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Taroudant, Morocco- A girl aged two and 4 months was raped and murdered by her uncle on Sunday, Oct. 12 in the town of Bir Jdid, about 60 kilometers from Casablanca.
Led by a vicious desire to take revenge of his sister, the offender admitted his shocking crime after being arrested by the authorities on the same day. Aya, the little victim, was “found in a terrible state.”
“The first elements of the investigation revealed that the girl was deflowered before her murder,” said Najat Anwar, the president of the organization “Touche pas à mon enfant”, (touch not my child) who is following the case.
Anwar said that “the uncle committed the crime to avenge his sister who gave birth to Aya out of wedlock.”
According to a study conducted by the organization “Touche pas à mon enfant” in 2008, Aya is believed to be the first case in her age to be victim of this brutal crime in the country.
According to a new UN report entitled “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT A statistical analysis of violence against children”, prepared by UNICEF, around 120 million girls around the world, nearly one in 10, have been subject to rape or sexual abuse by the time they turn 20.
Most shockingly, the report shows that the most common perpetrators of sexual violence against girls are current or former husbands, partners or boyfriends.
